As predicted, Daixin has leaked the third part of the data they exfiltrated from TransForm and Canadian healthcare entities. DataBreaches reported the first leak when Daixin publicly claimed responsibility for the attack. The second leak followed two days later, and less than one day later, the third tranche dropped. As with the first two leaks,…
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Summit Health has hundreds of locations. Were they victims of a cyberattack by LockBit3.0?
Summit Health is a for-profit, multi-specialty medical practice headquartered in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. It describes itself as a “physician-driven, patient-centric network committed to simplifying the complexities of health care and bringing a more connected kind of care.” They have more than 2,800 providers, 13,000 employees, and over 370 locations in New Jersey, New York,…
Update: Daixin leaks more data from Bluewater Health and other hospitals; databases yet to be leaked
As some will likely have already noticed, Daixin Team released the second part of the data leak from five hospitals in Ontario that have IT services provided by TransForm SSO. The first leak, containing many patient records, was previously reported by DataBreaches on November 1. Skimming the second tranche, DataBreaches noted a lot of internal…
Australian Clinical Labs to face court over 2022 data breach
David Hollingworth reports: The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner believes Australian Clinical Labs did not adequately protect personal data, leading to an increased risk of “identity theft, extortion and financial crime”. When MedLabs pathology was hacked in February 2022, 223,000 Australians had their personal information exposed on the darknet, including credit card details and passport…
It took an HHS complaint, but three years later, some Ventura Orthopedic patients are finally being notified of a ransomware attack
In August 2020, DataBreaches reported that the Maze ransomware gang had added Ventura Orthopedics to their name-and-shame leak site. At the time, Ventura did not respond to inquiries about whether they would confirm or deny the claims. And they did not respond to other inquiries from DataBreaches when the Conti ransomware gang subsequently listed 1,850…
AU: ‘Curious’ pharmacist spied on patient records at The Alfred
Lachlan Abbott reports: About 7000 Alfred Health patients are victims of a privacy breach after a pharmacist working at Victoria’s leading trauma hospital accessed personal medical records without authorisation. Alfred Health wrote to every patient affected in a letter sent on Monday, seen by The Age, which said the pharmacist was dismissed after an investigation, launched…